Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush
Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to George W. Bush
This chapter provides a magisterial summary of voting behavior and religious allegiance since the Great Depression. Its authors have pioneered in specifying connections between political and religious allegiances in the modern period. This time they have the advantage of mass public polling. The broad political patterns documented for the major religious groups over the last few decades serve as an indispensable social-scientific infrastructure for understanding the landscape of contemporary politics and religion. The chapter documents the changes in mass electoral politics since 1936, demonstrating a fundamental transformation in the links between religion and politics; documents the specific alterations in the religious landscape and their implications for voting behavior; and argues that the ethnoreligious perspective alone no longer provides an adequate account of religious voting behavior today, but requires the addition of new categories based on religious beliefs and practices.
Keywords: World War II, religious allegiance, Great Depression, antebellum period, public polling
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